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Re: Remember this guy?

I remember doing a lot of complaining in 2009 over guys like Darnell McDonald getting at-bats over Balentien.

"Since I've been with the Reds in 1989, we've never had a farm system this loaded," Bowden said. "If we were the New York Yankees and had unlimited dollars, we could have traded for Colon, (Jeff) Weaver, Rolen, (Cliff) Floyd, (Kenny) Rogers and Finley and gotten them all -- and still held onto our top five prospects. That's an amazing statement."

Re: Remember this guy?

Re: Remember this guy?

Originally Posted by VR

I was intrigued by him, thought he'd be getting serious starts a couple of years back.

Also by his name. "WL"adimir? "V"ladimr? "L"adamir with a silent W?

"Vladimir". Not 100% sure about Dutch, but in German the "v" sound is spelled with a w and pronounced as such. The letter v is actually pronounced with an "f" sound, so if he spelled it with a v it would be pronounced "Fladimir."

Burn down the disco. Hang the blessed DJ. Because the music that he constantly plays, it says nothing to me about my life.

Re: Remember this guy?

I enjoyed watching Wladdy play in 2010 with Louisville. He seemed very close to Juan Francisco, I think he was a good mentor for him. They both went on an incredible home run tear at the same time in late July of that season, and the Bats would win 20 out of 21 games in that time. Just like with Louisville, Wladimir has hit a couple of incredibly long "video game" home runs, I will post some videos of them tomorrow. They are quite entertaining, especially if you have never seen Japanese baseball, with the synchronized umbrella dances and mascot high fives.

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